Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

Political Observer comments. Headline: Tony Blair gazes into a mirror and finds Keir Starmer seeking approval Sub-headline: Is Labour leader finally prepared to declare the party’s most successful prime minister is the model to follow, asks John Rentoul? https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-starmer-tony-blair-conference-b2377485.html … … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. As a long time reader of The New York Review of Books: 1971 to the present: Mr. Remnick was part of a ‘Left Coterie’ that included Robert Silvers, the editor of NYRB. Silvers idolized Kennan , he appeared often, … Continue reading →

Old Socialist comments. Note that ‘Liberal Zionism’ is not just moribund, but dead! While Tom Friedman was the ‘middle ground’ of Israeli Loyalists/Apologists, at The Paper of Record. His latest 1,819 word essay is anguished in its way, yet still hewing to … Continue reading →

Political Observer reads this crap, so you won’t have too! I recall Joe Conason calling Ralph Nader a ‘spoiler’ during the 2000 Presidential Election, in that once very trendy, salmon pink newspaper, The New York Observer. Also look at the treatment, in … Continue reading →

American Observer comments. The opening paragraph of Mr. Colvile’s latest political corrective: How did you mark the great occasion? Personally, I’m worried I didn’t do enough. Sure, I got the tattoo and renamed both of my children “Aneurin”. But it’s Our … Continue reading →

Political Cynic acts as a reluctant Drama Critic… Headline: Meta says 30mn people have signed up to Twitter competitor Threads Sub-headline: Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has pitched app as a ‘friendly’ alternative to Elon Musk’s struggling platform https://www.ft.com/content/63b27e71-c568-49d4-9a03-aa48f8397a27 Recall this … Continue reading →

StephenKMackSD. My replies in The Financial Times of July 4, 2023 Headline: French businesses start rebuilding after riot ‘nightmare’ Sub-headline: Macron says will push through emergency law to accelerate reconstruction for damaged property https://www.ft.com/content/468501f8-fbd2-442f-ba92-b4f329e9184f ‘The Rebellion Against The Elites’ continues? … Continue reading →

Political Observer. Under the frame of ‘FALSE DICHOTOMY’ The Reader has to be patient with Alaric DeArment’s first two paragraphs of his ‘essay’ that are mere preamble: A scene of squalor unfolds as the camera moves along a city street … Continue reading →

Philosophical Apprentice The constant stream of ‘Trumpology’ that Lowry has produced in how many weeks? has made way for a long and dismal apologetic for the ‘Roberts Court’. If only Lowry possessed a talent for polemic. But the energy with which he imbues … Continue reading →

Political Cynic … . The composed Headline, that reads in part ‘Party like it’s 1917’ the maladroit framing, expresses a dull-witted attempt to shanghai Prince’s 1999 best selling Pop Record? call it at best pathetic. Or an attempt to reach a generation of … Continue reading →